Episode 0: About us and „The Effective Statistician “

Welcome to “The Effective Statistician”. The podcast for statisticians who want to have a bigger impact. This podcast is sponsored by PSI.

Alexander Schacht and Benjamin Piske co-host this podcast.

In our episode 0 we will speak today about the content of this podcast. We discuss

• who we are,
• who is our target audience,
• hat we will cover, i.e. what you will get from this podcast,
• and how the format will be.

Who are we?

Alexander:

• academic and industry experience (within the sponsor)
• phase III and IV (RCT, observational studies, regulatory submissions, HTA submission, commercialization work)
• different medical areas
• interest in many different areas methodologically
• group leader
• changing environment from office based to working virtually
• working from Germany
• PSI involvement (benefit-risk special interest group, scientific committee member, getting more involved in communications)
• husband and father of 3 kids
• love running and listening to podcasts

I will mainly drive this podcast and will chat with Benjamin around various topics for the first season of this podcast

Benjamin: - 14 years of industry experience (within CRO) - originally started in phase IIIb/IV (interventional and NIS, commercialization work, publication /presentation support, investigator driven trials) - by now also experiences in phase II and III - variety of therapeutic areas (mainly oncology, hematology and neurology) - manager for 9 years now - working primarily office based in Berlin, Germany - husband and father of 4 kids

Who is this podcast intended to help?

• Statisticians
• Experienced and junior
• With and without administrative leadership positions
• Mainly in the health sector
• Statisticians / data scientists outside will benefit surely as well

What will be the topics of the podcast:

• Goal is to become more effective at work
• Build competency in terms of doing better statistics
• Ongoing methodological discussions
• Becoming a leader without a title
• Influence without authority
• Build your brand
• Get the right things done effectively
• Collaborate effectively within and across companies/organizations

What will we not cover:

• Advanced programming skills
• Pure news

Format of the podcast:

• Weekly show
• About 20-30 minutes
• Co-hosting
• Interviews
• Maybe single episodes as well